Early March, I journeyed London to Birmingham for a focus group with students of Birmingham City University. BCU is currently in the process of launching GradPlus, a student development and employability program, that forms part of their vision to transform how they link student, education, community and business. To find[...]

Part 1: Identifying team members’ roles There is a widespread assumption among practitioners of management and organisational psychology theory that ‘balanced’ teams are the highest performing. The idea was born when Meredith Belbin put forward his team role theory (1981), in which he alleged a team is balanced when each[...]

Testing: one, two… one, two… well, almost. The British education system has not yet reached the point of academically assessing children under twenty-four months but the start of the 2015-16 school year brings such practise one step closer. Since Michael Gove announced the introduction of optional testing of new primary[...]

Potential.ly has just returned triumphant from our first ever education conference! We spent last week at Future EdTech 2015, getting down to the nitty gritty about the future of education with industry experts. On our brief trip back to school we learnt about everything from big data to the latest[...]

Existing on the London start-up scene as we do, over the last couple of years we’ve picked up a couple of pearls of wisdom. I’m not about to start preaching about being “start-up streetwise” or some other bit of aggravatingly alliterative doctrine, there is no point. Think for a moment[...]